Twentieth annual report of the Belfast District Asylum for the insane poor of the counties of Antrim and Down, and county of the town of Carrickfergus : for the year ended the 31st of March, 1850 / drawn up by the resident physician.
- Belfast District Lunatic Asylum
- Date:
- 1850
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Twentieth annual report of the Belfast District Asylum for the insane poor of the counties of Antrim and Down, and county of the town of Carrickfergus : for the year ended the 31st of March, 1850 / drawn up by the resident physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![TABLE III. Alleged causes of insanity in the cases admitted during the year. Grief-disappointment—anxiety, 1 M • • • Males. 8 Females. 10 Total. 18 Bodily ailments, • • • • • • 6 8 14 Intemperance, • • • lit 10 6 16 Poverty and distress of times, 3 4 7 Fright, • • • • • • 1 8 9 Epilepsy, • • • • • • 1 0 1 Fear of want,... • • • • • 1 2 3 Injury from a fall, ... • • • III 3 0 3 Jealousy, 1 1 2 Unknown or hereditary, •II •*• 2 5 7 Totally Unknown, • • • • • • 22 18 40 TABLE TV.— FORMS OF 58 62 DISEASE. 120 Mania, • • • m Males. 41 Females. 26 Total. 67 Mono-mania, ... ... • • • IM 5 3 8 Melancholia, • •I • • # 11 26 37 Dementia, .. ... ... • • • • • • 4 4 8 TABLE Episcopalians, . 61 V—RELIGION. Males. ... ... 14 59 Females. 12 120 Total. 26 Roman Catholics, • • • • • • 14 16 30 Presbyterians and Protestant Dissenters, 29 35 64 TABLE VI.— 57 63 SOCIAL CONDITION. 120 Married, • • • • • • Males. 21 Females. 33 Total. 54 Single, • • • 11 i 35 23 58 Widower and Widows, ••• 1 7 8 57 TABLE VII.—OCCUPATION. Males. Clergymen, R. C., ... ... ... ... 2 63 Females. 0 120 Total. 2 Student, ... ... ... • M • t • ] 0 1 Carpenter, 1 0 1 Sawyei, ... ... ... • « • • • • 1 0 1 Domestic Servants,... • • • * • • 0 10 10 Dress-Makers, • II III 0 3 3 Cloth-lapper, ... • M • • • 1 0 1 Farmers and Farmers’ Wives, 5 4 9 Cooper, ... ... ... ••• ••! 1 0 1 Carry forward, 12 17 29](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30301919_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
